Sylvia Oh

For the next project, I would like to make a website about restaurants and foods that I enjoy. Eating is definitely one of my favorite past times and I really consider myself a foodie. I enjoy going to new places and am always open to try new things.

My five pages would be:

1. Home page that introduces me and what the rest of the website is going to be about
2. My favorite foods in San Marcos and where I like to go to eat them
3. My favorite homemade Korean dishes (that my momma still cooks me)
4. My favorite restaurants and why I like them
5. My favorite recipes that I like to cook at home

I came across Kirbie’s Cravings and really liked the design of the website. Although it’s a website for those living in San Diego, I liked the concept of the site. It has restaurant index where you could search for restaurants by cuisine or location, a recipe index where you could search for recipes many different ways, and much more. Also, the layout is cute, simple, and easy to navigate through.

My favorite website right now would probably have to be Pinterest. I like Pinterest because it’s extremely relevant to me. I’m able to choose what I want to see and skip over things that don’t interest me. I can search for things that range from healthy diets to trendy clothes, and everything in between. My favorite to search is DIY (Do It Yourself) projects because it helps me turn broken or used items into crafty and useful things.

I think the website is mostly well designed but a little cluttered. The home page shows a search bar at the top and it’s big enough to notice, and the home page shows a bunch of boards that are relevant to me because it brings up boards I’ve searched in the past. Although it seems a little cluttered at first, it’s okay after the first trial run because you figure out that all of the different boards showing are just different options of whatever you searched (such as food, or hairstyles, etc.) and they all take you to different websites that go into further detail.

In my opinion, Pinterest does a good job managing to focus user’s attention because it shows block images and minimal text. According to the article, our eyes focus more on images than text, so whatever image we are interested in, we can click on and read more about but at our own discretion. They also do a good job of making use of effective writing. They use photos to capture our interest and then add a small description or quote to describe it furthermore. We can click it to read more.

Something Pinterest could work on is not being afraid of the white space. As much as I love Pinterest and it works well for the most part, it is sort of cluttered and there is a lot of photos and boards to sift through.

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